London Merchant

Name: London Merchant
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ISBN: 9780803253650

ISBN-10: 0803253656

ISBN-13: 9780803253650

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Authors: George Lillo, William H. McBurney

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Mrs. Millwood is beautiful, intelligent, and ambitious, but London gives her no means of support except to seduce men. Love for her leads eighteen-year-old Barnwell to deceit, theft, and murder. "What are your laws," Mrs. Millwood asks, "but the fool's wisdom and the coward's valor, the instrument and screen of all your villainies by which you punish in others what you act out yourselves, had you been in their circumstances? The judge who condemns the poor man for being a thief had been a thief himself, had he been poor. Thus you go on deceiving and being deceived, harassing, plaguing, and destroying one another, but women are your universal prey." First performed in 1731, "The London…

Book details

List price: $14.00
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 11/1/1965
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 106
Size: 5.30" wide x 8.01" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English



Abbreviations


Introduction


Selective Bibliography


The London Merchant


Prologue


The London Merchant; Or, the History of George Barnwell


The London Merchant; Or, the History of George Barnwell


Act II


Act III


Act IV


Act V


Epilogue